Chad: authorities respond to accusations of crimes against the army
Four organizations accuse the Chadian army of having committed war crimes against the rebels of the Fact in particular (image of illustration) AFP - -
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Chad's transitional government reacts to accusations made by several associations.
Four human rights organizations have sent a case to the new ICC prosecutor.
They ask him to investigate.
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These organizations claim that for a year the Chadian army has committed war crimes against the rebellion of the Fact, as well as crimes against civilians since the takeover of the country by the Transitional Military Council following the death of 'Idriss Deby.
A “
futile attempt to discredit
the new authorities” according to Abderaman Koulamallah, Chadian Minister of Communication and government spokesperson.
“
We are calm, we have absolutely nothing to reproach ourselves with.
"
“
Human rights organizations have visited Fact prisoners in regular prisons, political prisoners are respected.
As for the civilian populations, this is completely unfounded information.
We are trying to discredit our government, in vain, and that will not work.
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The government spokesman asserts that the authorities have evidence incriminating, on the contrary, the rebels of the Fact.
“
We are preparing a solid case to show that it is the terrorist elements that attacked the country that are guilty of war crimes.
We have evidence, conversations that we intercepted which show that Chadian military prisoners were executed by armed gangs
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The alleged crimes of the Chadian army on the office of the new ICC prosecutor
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